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Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Serris on May 20, 2008, 11:33:45 PM
Does anyone prefer the military (24 hour) time notation over the standard time notation (12 hour)?

I greatly prefer the military time because it's less confusing.

Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: ingster on May 20, 2008, 11:46:51 PM
i rather prefer the am/pm time format, becuse for the fact its easier to use and understand, also it can be usefull in knowing what part of the day it is
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Flathead770 on May 21, 2008, 12:38:44 AM
i don't really care which one is used really, though i guess 24 hour time is technically better to use for reasons stated above
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on May 21, 2008, 01:09:25 AM
I've grown up with standard, everyone around me understands standard, standard works, and people get confused when you say the time in military time.  For those reasons, I voted the 12 hr time.
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Malte279 on May 21, 2008, 01:17:07 AM
I prefer the 24 hours system, but over here the 24 system is standard anyway in written form anyway and doesn't hold any military associations. While talking many people over here may still use the 12 hour system though.
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: The Dark Patriot on May 21, 2008, 01:20:16 AM
I prefer 24 hour time. It was drilled into me as a cadet, and it's standard for the schedules at work, so I can't really live without it.
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on May 21, 2008, 02:05:20 AM
Think I have to agree with Austin on this one; I grew up with the "standard" time format; military time confuses me... :unsure:
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on May 21, 2008, 02:10:12 AM
Using military time is easy, but since I didn't grow up with it and get used to it, when someone says the time in military time, it makes me have to think for a minute.  When I want the time, I just want the time!  I don't want to have to convert it.
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on May 21, 2008, 03:03:51 AM
Yes.  Exactly!
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Kor on May 21, 2008, 06:32:02 AM
I prefer standard over military personally.  With military it takes me a while to convert unless I use a calculator.
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: kjeldo on May 21, 2008, 07:25:09 AM
i can live with both,
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Lillefot on May 21, 2008, 07:26:55 AM
Same here, I use both. For differnt purposes. :lol:

/Lillefot
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Coyote_A on May 21, 2008, 10:48:53 AM
For me so-called "military time" is a normal one, and P.M./A.M. thing is something confusing and more difficult to use... As it like for any russian, i guess. We don't have this "normal" format here at all. :)
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: DarkHououmon on May 21, 2008, 11:51:36 AM
I prefer standard. Military is too confusing for me. Well not too confusing. But if I see something in military time, it takes me longer to figure out what time it is because I have to think in my mind and count. Standard time is what I grew up with, so I'm more comfortable with it.
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Mumbling on May 21, 2008, 11:55:10 AM
I prefer military time. I'm most used to it. And I think it's anoying to look whether it is AM or PM..(for example when someone posted it at 1:34 at the board and I think 'o he was online jsut now' but later on I see 'am' 'o he was online 12 hours ago.. >.<' .. Yea well. I think that's anoying.)
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on May 21, 2008, 04:56:30 PM
It's perfectly understandable...  For most of us, what we grew up with, we prefer, since it's easier for us to remember...
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Petrie. on May 21, 2008, 07:30:35 PM
No preference...I could figure out either one.
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on May 21, 2008, 07:57:00 PM
Yeah, so can I, pretty much...  I just prefer the 12 hour format, because I grew up with it - mostly...  And, that's probably what most of us prefer...
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Kor on May 21, 2008, 09:34:35 PM
It seems like most do here, though not everyone.
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on May 21, 2008, 09:55:05 PM
Yeah, not everybody.  Adam, for one, doesn't really seem to have a preference either way...
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Ptyra on June 08, 2008, 01:35:38 PM
Standard; it's easier for me to understand  :P:
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Post by: Tyrannosaur on June 08, 2008, 02:07:00 PM
when i was younger, i always wanted to learn the 24 hour clock. i technically prefer it as every digital clock i have i set in 24 hour format, but very rarely will i actually say the time in 24 hour format :)
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Kor on June 08, 2008, 03:59:52 PM
I guess it's about 50/50 that prefer 24 hour or standard.  There are some digital clocks you can't set to your prefered format, or at least 1 that I know of, which is to bad.  It seems my ds is one that is set to 24 hour, which I find mildly annoying.    Each style, I guess, has it's good and bad points.
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Loofah on June 09, 2008, 04:06:42 PM
I could not choose one, mostly i use both of them. I don¥t know really why, i think it is more comfortable to use it when i say it is 3 o clock in the afternoon than it is 15 o clock.
But when i wrote down the time anywhere here i ever use the 24 hour System! :unsure:
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Amaranthine on July 04, 2008, 01:10:14 AM
I prefer the standard time myself, only because I am used to it and to me it makes more sense than military time.
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on July 04, 2008, 05:04:45 AM
You just subtract 12 from military time to get Standard Time, right? (That better be right, or I've been screwing up my times for the last 15 years).

That doesn't seem too complicated. It's actually one of the simplest unit conversions I can think of (definitely easier than Celcius/Fahrenheit, or Meters/Feet)
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Mumbling on July 04, 2008, 05:06:11 AM
Quote from: LettuceBacon&Tomato,Jul 4 2008 on  11:04 AM
That doesn't seem too complicated. It's actually one of the simplest unit conversions I can think of (definitely easier than Celcius/Fahrenheit, or Meters/Feet)
For sure. I dislike all the formulas I need to remember for those calculations :p
Title: What time format do you prefer?
Post by: Littlefoot1616 on July 04, 2008, 06:23:37 AM
Meh...not really fussed in all honesty coz I can use both systems. Although I do get them confused sometimes. E.g. I've read 1900hrs and told someone it was 9pm  :lol